I am no artist. If you don’t believe me, I can draw you some convincing stick figures. However, because I am happy to undertake that which I suck at, I welcomed Jason’s suggestion of celebrating my birthday via a painting party at Painting with a Twist. Many of our friends also cheered this idea and, thus, it became a colorful reality.
Since everyone at my party had to paint the same picture, I wanted it to be selected fairly. So, after sifting through over 4,000 options, I created a preference survey for a handful of the cooler ones. My survey didn’t exactly work. Someone (Cameron) took it multiple times. Consequently, the real winner, a Harry Potter castle, got supplanted by an Asian wave. Still, our Japanese-style surfs looked awesome!
The painting process went astonishingly fast so there wasn’t much time to socialize during it but we went to dinner at Leatherby’s with a subset of our party goers afterward, which offered more chances to chat.
Thanks everyone that joined us for my twisted party. Nothing says “we’re friends” quite like matching decor.
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I feel like there’s no evidence that links me to the crime I’m accused of. Well, except my confession. But in my defense some of the times I took the survey were an accident. And in the end I certainly didn’t vote for that wave so I don’t know how this happened. But I think everyone loved painting the wave- it was very soothing. Shame on your for trying to give people a choice.
Stupid auto correct. What I meant to say was: “thank you!” for another wonderful party. Apologies for that survey tomfoolery!
This is how it happened. I knew 12 people needed to vote so when 12 votes had been made Jason notified Painting with a Twist of the painting we would be doing. The next day, the last two real votes were made but it was too late. And, frankly, I didn’t know if they were real votes because I didn’t understand what had happened. But, no worries, the wave was the second-place winner and it was fun to paint. So it’s all good. I just have to give you a hard time… after over 20 years of me giving you a hard time you should be used to it. 🙂